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State Senator, 26th District

Vote for: 1
Term: 4 years
Candidates: 2
Election: Nov 3, 2026

What this office does: A state senator votes on Indiana laws and the state budget in the General Assembly.

Candidates Compare by issue

Andrew Dale

Democratic

Executive leadership coach · Muncie

The gist

Supports tougher state regulation of rising utility costs.
Supports barring dissolution of small school corporations.
Opposes Indiana's school voucher system.
Opposes bringing faith-based practices into public classrooms.
Supports incentivizing wind and solar over data centers.
Supports repairing the 2025 property tax law, SEA 1.

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Supports tougher state regulation of rising utility costs.
Andrew Dale for Indiana Senate (Where I Stand)
Campaign website · Committee to Elect Andrew Dale · daleforindianasenate.com
“got out of the backseat with utility interests and into the driver's seat when it comes to regulating ever-ascending utility costs”
Supports barring dissolution of small school corporations.
Andrew Dale for Indiana Senate (Where I Stand)
Campaign website · Committee to Elect Andrew Dale · daleforindianasenate.com
“The prohibition of unlawful dissolutions of Indiana school corporations must be drafted and set into law.”
Opposes Indiana's school voucher system.
Andrew Dale for Indiana Senate (Where I Stand)
Campaign website · Committee to Elect Andrew Dale · daleforindianasenate.com
“Indiana's educational voucher system bleeds Indiana's public schools both financially and structurally”
Opposes bringing faith-based practices into public classrooms.
Andrew Dale for Indiana Senate (Where I Stand)
Campaign website · Committee to Elect Andrew Dale · daleforindianasenate.com
“Keeping church out of school is a must.”
Supports incentivizing wind and solar over data centers.
Andrew Dale for Indiana Senate (Where I Stand)
Campaign website · Committee to Elect Andrew Dale · daleforindianasenate.com
“in exchange for incentivizing renewables, such as wind and solar”
Supports repairing the 2025 property tax law, SEA 1.
Andrew Dale for Indiana Senate (Where I Stand)
Campaign website · Committee to Elect Andrew Dale · daleforindianasenate.com
“The issue at hand is the need to repair Indiana's catastrophic 2025 property tax reform bill (Senate Enrolled Act 1)”

Scott A. Alexander

RepublicanIncumbent

State senator; real estate appraiser · Muncie

The gist

Supports property tax relief for homeowners.
Supports cutting income taxes to lower living costs.
Supports lower drug costs and health care price transparency.
Sponsored the 2025 law ending time limits on rape prosecutions.In office
Sponsored the 2026 law raising penalties for underage vape sales.In office

In office = from the candidate's own official statements or legislation as an officeholder, not their campaign.

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Supports property tax relief for homeowners.
Scott Alexander for Indiana State Senate | District 26
Campaign website · Committee to Elect Scott Alexander · electscottalexander.com
“Property tax relief for homeowners”
Supports cutting income taxes to lower living costs.
Scott Alexander for Indiana State Senate | District 26
Campaign website · Committee to Elect Scott Alexander · electscottalexander.com
“He is fighting to lower the cost of living by cutting income taxes and making it easier for Hoosiers to afford a home.”
Supports lower drug costs and health care price transparency.
Scott Alexander for Indiana State Senate | District 26
Campaign website · Committee to Elect Scott Alexander · electscottalexander.com
“lowering prescription drug costs, increasing price transparency, and protecting patients from hidden fees and excessive hospital bills”
Sponsored the 2025 law ending time limits on rape prosecutions.
Senate Bill 151: Statute of limitations (2025 session), introduced version
Government record · Indiana General Assembly · iga.in.gov
“Allows the prosecution of Level 3 felony rape and child molesting offenses to be commenced at any time.”
Senate Bill 151: Statute of limitations (2025 session): bill page
Government record · Indiana General Assembly · iga.in.gov
Sponsored the 2026 law raising penalties for underage vape sales.
Senate Bill 144: Tobacco, e-liquid, and vapor devices (2026 session), introduced version
Government record · Indiana General Assembly · iga.in.gov
“make a delivery sale of a vapor product to an individual less than 21 years of age”
Senate Bill 144: Tobacco, e-liquid, and vapor devices (2026 session): bill page
Government record · Indiana General Assembly · iga.in.gov

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